Exploring Yael Akirav’s Conductive Origami

The industrial designer created an innovative lighting range using a fusion of 3D Printing and Origami

By Amy Saunders | September 17, 2019 | Category

Yael Akirav is an industrial designer from Israel known for her innovative designs that include Bloomiez, an origami textile flower that attaches to a car exhaust pipe and collects small pollution particles, her chic and modern Se Turk tools designed for a Turkish coffee making ceremony and most recently, her incredible Conductive Origami Lighting.

Yael’s Conductive Origami Lighting project features a series of lighting fixtures she designed and produced using 3D printing and textiles. According to her super cute website, ‘stiff printing on canvas allows creating complex fixtures. When the printed material conducts electricity, the tangent points created by the wisdom of origami folding, produce a new opportunity - lighting the fixture by shrinking and stretching the structure.’

The 3D print filament is acts as a skeletal structure for the lighting fixtures and each light has its own unique folding and unfolding method. Take a look at a few of Yael’s creations below.

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Vertical opening. The conductive filament allowes a new way of lighting the lamp, by contracting and streching the structure. Photographer: @ofekavshalom #origamidesign #origami #finalproject. #bezalelacademy #idbezalel #conductivity #conductive #lighting #light #textile #3dprinting #fold #lamp #conductivefilament

A post shared by yael akirav(@yaelakirav) on Aug 4, 2019 at 5:38am PDT

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3d printing onto textile Inspired by origami folding techniques Photography - @ofekavshalom #origamidesign #origami #fold #fabric #textile #idbezalel #industrialdesign #finalproject #lighting #lamp #3dprinting

A post shared by yael akirav(@yaelakirav) on Aug 18, 2019 at 7:24am PDT

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3d printing onto textile Playing with lights and fabrics #origamidesign #origami #3dprinting #textile #fabric #lighting #light

A post shared by yael akirav(@yaelakirav) on Aug 3, 2019 at 3:54am PDT

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Conductive Origami Round opening. 3d printing onto textile. The conductive filament use as a dimmer switch. Photographer: @ofekavshalom #origamidesign #origami #conductive #conductivefilament #textile #3dprinting #idbezalel #finalproject #lighting #lamp

A post shared by yael akirav(@yaelakirav) on Aug 1, 2019 at 1:00am PDT